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SF Taxi Workers Alliance Opposes SF MTA UBER Deal The SFTWA is opposing a deal for UBER to profiteer from Taxi drivers. It is supported by the billionaires at UBER and Mayor London Breed who takes money from them. Breed and previous mayors supported deregulation and a free hand for UBER/Lyft and other operations that have seriously harmed the taxi drivers of San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2022 1:44pm PDT
Sign the Petition Please sign our petition and forward to other proletarians. We are in the midst of a struggle against our corrupt board of directors.
In Solidarity,...
Posted: Thu, Feb 24, 2022 12:39pm PST
Interview on The Black Book of Capitalism The book is: 1) a history of the three great industrial revolutions (introduction of the manufacturing system with the steam engine at the beginning of the 19th century, Fordist “self-mobilization” with the assembly line and the rationalization of the corporate economy during the first half of the 20th century, and the microelectronic revolution....
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2022 10:32am PST
What 2022 is about: replacing conservatives with progressive economic policies A labor shortage that is slowly taking shape and the demand for progressive taxation of high wealth, which is being championed in many countries, will make it possible to change the economy and society in Austria and Europe for the better. They will help us eradicate poverty and fight the scourge of unemployment....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2022 6:40am PST
CCSF Chancellor & Bd of Trustees Choose Layoffs & Union Busting Says AFT 2121 AFT 2121 is charging the San Francisco City College Chancellor and Board of Trustees with union busting for improperly laying off 67 SEIU staff members....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2022 10:23pm PST
New CCSF Chancellor Says SEIU 1021 Members Hold "Respectful" Rally The new SF City College chancellor John Martin said that the SEIU1021 chapter had a "respectful" rally against the 67 layoffs. The SEIU 1021 SF City College Chapter leadership refused to have any public action before the layoffs and has kept the layoffs a secret from the public. There is no mention of the layoffs on the SEIU 1021 website and facebook page....
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2022 12:03pm PST
A good future beyond the market and the state In the midst of a blindly globalized society, we are atomized workers and consumers divided by competition, who are in contact with each other primarily through monetary and labor relations and only exceptionally and temporarily represent common interests. We become increasingly helpless because we are increasingly superfluous and excluded from access......
Posted: Wed, Dec 29, 2021 11:32am PST
The true costs of capitalist wealth What drives the capitalist mode of production is the endless compulsion to increase abstract wealth, or, put more simply, the compulsion to turn money into more money... Society is richer than it knows, because it does not take all kinds of wealth factors into account in GDP....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2021 5:03am PST
The Last Stage of the Middle Class Money capital is fleeing into the speculative financial markets because investments in new factories have become unprofitable. While growing parts of society are impoverished or even impoverished outside of production, only a simulative accumulation of capital through financial bubbles takes place......
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2021 8:31am PST
Keeping Business Alive: The Government Will Pay A buyer-of-last-resort program would alleviate the hardship of workers and businesses. It would maintain the cash flow for families and businesses, so that the coronavirus shock has no secondary impacts on demand — Business activity is on hold today, but with an intravenous cash flow, it can be kept alive until the health crisis is over....
Posted: Thu, Dec 2, 2021 6:14am PST
Promoting Sustainable Economics The protagonists of neoliberal globalization seek to fight the devastations – for which they bear responsibility – by the same means that cause the devastations. Now is the time to seize the opportunity and build up economic policy pressure to enforce the development of an economic order that is sustainably oriented towards social and ecological welfare....
Posted: Tue, Nov 30, 2021 5:44pm PST
The Obsolescence of Man The modernization of products and war are twin phenomena which reinforce each other. The helicopters by dropping napalm transformed whole villages into blazing infernos. By means of technology we are transformed into ahistorical beings....
Posted: Mon, Nov 29, 2021 8:07am PST
What will it be like after the pandemic? From the March outbreak to the end of May 2020 alone, over forty million people filed initial claims for unemployment benefits. Images of endless lines in front of soup kitchens went around the world. In the meantime, the USA threatened to sink into chaos....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2021 9:26am PST
The Endgame of Capitalism I develop a positive vision for a system change in part four. Before that, however, the question is raised how the corporations envision the system change: Their way of wanting to preserve their power after the inevitable collapse of the Ponzi-scheme of financial capitalism is a transition from free-market capitalism to a new version of feudalism....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2021 4:43am PST
Is China in danger of collapse? and Anti-economics and anti-politics In the process of modernization, the relationship between market and state can be boiled down to the formula of a general law: the more market, the more state... The bloated market and the bloated state can only live or die together....
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2021 4:17pm PDT
We only live in half a democracy The machine used in the production process counts more in the constitution than the working person who created this machine in the first place. As a result, the employees in the production process are hopelessly inferior to the capital owners. That is the legal situation. But it doesn't have to stay that way....
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2021 7:55am PDT
The Virtues of a 28-hour Week: Work less, pollute less The number of workers is growing faster than the amount of work available. We live in a society where work is poorly distributed. Three days off for every four days worked could be liberating. The goal would be increased well-being, gaining time and losing a kind of consumption not really synonymous with pleasure & happiness....
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2021 6:18am PDT
There is an alternative to maximizing profits In a new encyclical, the Pope denounces the pursuit of profit. The Sonntagszeitung spoke about this with the business ethicist Peter Ulrich. He defends the Holy Father, criticizes the managers and calls for economy for fifth graders... Ultimately, the essence of these products is to make money out of money, without taking the inconvenient detour via the real economy....
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2021 1:28pm PDT
Northern California hospital engineers’ walkout enters fourth week The unions are collaborating to keep contract struggles by Kaiser employees isolated and to prevent a united stoppage, as 24,000 nurses join the engineers in authorizing strike action....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2021 7:56am PDT
Renaissance of the Social Market Economy A social market economy is based on two political pillars: (1) taming the market dynamics via regulation and (2) mitigating its consequences in distribution policy. (3) The development and care of an economic culture of moderation and fairness in dealing with one another forms the third, the cultural pillar of taming and civilizing market interactions....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2021 7:13am PDT
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